A coordinate design and information system (CDIS) combining coordinate geometry, spatial features and drafting into one package. CDIS uses an object-oriented and spatial-based approach in which all objects have a set of attributes, while space and areas are defined and tracked. The invention has such features as incremental numbering with automatic parceling, duplicating a cluster, pulling a line tangent to a curve, erasing figures by type, converting lines to polylines, computing an average radius from digitized points, wiping out triangles greater than a certain length, exploding a text file inserted as multi-line text into individual lines of text, and specifying parcel report precision.
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1. A coordinate design and information system comprising: a processor; and a designing mechanism for creating a design of a physical site including new physical geometry therefore, connected to said processor, having entities; and wherein: each of said entities is from the group including a simple figure, a basic figure, a standard figure, a specialization figure and a parcel; each figure comprises at least a point; a point has only an attribute of location; a simple figure may be a line, an arc or a polyline; a simple figure has only attributes of its points; a basic figure has at least one more attribute than the simple figure; a standard figure has at least one more attribute than a basic figure; a specialization figure can draw itself; and a parcel is a simple figure, a basic figure, a standard figure or specialization figure having a name.
2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising: a display comprising a view of a site having lots; and wherein said lots may be labeled and automatically parceled.
3. The system of claim 1 , further comprising: a display comprising a view of a site having a cluster; and wherein the cluster may be duplicated and placed in the site plan.
4. The system of claim 1 , further comprising: a display comprising a view of a site having a curve; and wherein the curve may be snapped to place a line tangent to it at a selected point on the curve.
5. The system of claim 1 , further comprising: a display comprising a view of a site having figures; and wherein the figures may be erased by type of figure.
6. The system of claim 1 , further comprising: a display comprising a view of a site having a plurality of figures that are lines; and wherein the lines may be converted to a polyline that is one figure.
7. The system of claim 1 , further comprising: a display comprising a view of a site having a plurality of points; and wherein an average radius of the points may be calculated.
8. The system of claim 1 , further comprising: a display comprising a view of a site having triangles; and wherein triangles larger than a selected length may be deleted.
9. The system of claim 1 , further comprising: a display comprising a view of a site having a multi-line text file in the view; and wherein the text file may be exploded into individual lines of text.
10. The system of claim 1 , further comprising: a display comprising a view of a site plan having parcels; and wherein: a parcel list having quantitative information may be generated of the parcels; and the quantitative information has a precision that may be adjusted.
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July 8, 2002
December 25, 2007
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